Category: Nebraska
A Small Town Grocery Store
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/16Dec22-Friend-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you live in or near a very small town, it’s a big blow when you lose your grocery store. …
You’ve Got a Friend in Friend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/12/15Dec22-Friend-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes you need a good friend. In this case, the good friend is the entire town. After all, it’s in…
Charley Havlat – An Important Moment in World War II History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/11Nov22-Dorchester-Nebraska-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In May of 1945, Dorchester, Nebraska native, Charley Havlat, was killed in action in the European theatre of World War…
The Burden Family
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/10Nov22-Dorchester-Nebraska-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The journey from slavery to freedom was one of many challenges for many families in the years following the Civil…
Advertising Artistic Stage Masterpiece
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/09Nov22-Dorchester-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may not think of advertising as a work of art. A trip to the farm town of Dorchester, Nebraska…
Dorchester, Nebraska’s Log Cabin
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/11/08Nov22-Dorchester-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can still find a few old, historic log cabins in this country. Many are museums of early pioneer life. …
Did You See That Fencepost?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/09Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Every cattleman needs good fences to keep the herd from roaming free. Joe Jeffrey has seen many miles of those…
Getting the Water Where You Need It
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/08Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You can plant a crop in the ground, but without water it will do very little. The farmers of this…
Mile-Long Bridges Over Dry River Beds
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/07Jun22-Joe-Jeffrey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the first residents of this area began building bridges to cross the nearby river, they found they often needed…
Wahoo, Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/26Apr22-Wahoo-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s certainly one of the more unique names for a town in the country. Interestingly, no one knows for sure…
Sam Wahoo Crawford
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/04/25Apr22-Wahoo-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Lots of people have nicknames. This baseball hall of famer was so proud of his hometown, they inserted it into…
The Salt King’s Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/10Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably know this gentleman’s son for the salt company he founded that bears his name. but the father was…
A Place With No Trees Was No Place For Him
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/09Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may enjoy a tree for its beauty, it’s shade, or perhaps the fruit that comes from it. But when…
The First Encounter with Wild Bill Hickok
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/21May21-Rock-Creek-Station-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Mention the name Wild Bill Hickok and many people have images of a western lawman not afraid to enter a …
Ruts That Are Never Filled
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/04/20May21-Rock-Creek-Station-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If someone cuts ruts down a muddy dirt trail, someone else will probably need to come and fill them in…
Making An Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/18Nov20-Shickley-Nebraska-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us give to charities. Some of those organizations may be local, but many are national or even global. …
One of the Mightiest Towns in the Land
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/11/17Nov20-Shickley-Nebraska-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are 340 residents in Shickley, Nebraska. If you count up all the folks living in the local school district,…
Engagement Through the Mail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/16Sep20-North-Platte-WWII-Canteen-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine getting engaged to someone you only knew through letters. That’s what happened here, thanks to one young lady who…
The Payoff of a Group Effort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/15Sep20-North-Platte-WWII-Canteen-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a massive volunteer effort involving people from well over a hundred communities scattered across western Nebraska and beyond. …
A Gift with Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/14Sep20-North-Platte-WWII-Canteen-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Rae Wilson went to the depot to give her brother a Christmas gift. When he did not arrive, a new…
